Handout photograph dated 26 October 2011 from Nasa shows a close-up image of the crack spreading across the ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier, highlighting the details of the boulder-like blocks of ice that fell into the rift when it split. Media reports in July 2013 say that the Pine Island glacier, in the Antarctic, has produced a huge iceberg measuring about 720sq km. – EPA/Nasa pic, March 12, 2020.
GREENLAND and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned. The kilometres-thick ice sheets atop land masses at the planet’s extremities sloughed off 6.4 trillion tonnes of mass from 1992 through 2017, adding nearly two centimetres to the global watermark, according to an assessment by 89 researchers, the most comprehensive to date.
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